Prof/teacher "Sam Wormley" <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote: Maxwell did, not Einstein.>hanson wrote:Sam & Hebe-Herbie: Nobody gave "c" to anybody.<http://www.speed-light.info/measurement.htm> says:The first successful measurement of "c" was made by Ole Roemer in 1676.... & Galileo even before him...>Of course, Hebe-Herbie has always a Prolapsein his micro-brain but is in good company with "jdawe"and Einstein who said in his fa-mouse 1905 paper:|||AE||| "the velocity of light 'c' in our theory (SR) plays|||AE||| the part, physically, of an infinitely great velocity.">Now, if you wanna dream and speculate about "jdawe"'spre-plonk worries less out-landishly, then "jdawe" and'Einstein did, with their infinitely large speed of travel,>then you might simply says that the fasted speed in thereal universe is when you cross the distance across the accessible universe (D) in 1 unit of Planck time (t) =-------- v_max = D / t = 6E+71 cm/s ---------->Of course in such flights of fancy there is no limitsince there are plenty more time units smaller thenPlanck's... Thanks for the laughs, guys.... ahahaha..hahahahaha... ahahahahanson